My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine and do it on a daily basis.
My work is about my life and what I want to do with it.
In my work and in myself I reflect black people women and men as I reflect...
I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know...
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me 'black...
My mother was very strong. Once she picked up a coconut and smashed it...
It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get...
War contributes greatly to global warming which shouldn't surprise us. All...
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's...
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without...
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on...
I'm sure we the American people are the butt of jokes by those in power.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have...
In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be...
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't...
Well I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that...
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long...
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are we must...
Yes Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your...
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for...
Never be the only one except possibly in your own home.
All History is current all injustice continues on some level somewhere in...
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get...
Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering...
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field...
In search of my mother's garden I found my own.
To me the black black woman is our essential mother the blacker she is the...
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to...
Fiction is such a world of freedom it's wonderful. If you want someone to...
For in the end freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down...
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or...
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that...
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as...
The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is...
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own...
Life is better than death I believe if only because it is less boring and...
