I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

It’s important to have relationships with the people at the archives.

I'm not saying we all have to love each other. I'm not saying we all have to agree with each other. I'm not even saying we have to like each other but let's respect each other.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

Children played at those stories

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.

Viv Anderson has pissed a fatness test.

We're just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.