I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
. . . but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.
Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. . .
The thing that I've most enjoyed is what I'm learning.
I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
I rely a great deal on animal instincts.