We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
We're going to have to debunk ...
Quotes from the same author
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
