Death Would Be A Complete Knowingness, But

There Were People Thrice Her Size On The Trenton Platform And She Looked Admiringly At One Of Them, A Woman In A Very Short Skirt. She Thought Nothing Of Slender Legs Shown Off In Miniskirts--it Was Safe And Easy, After All, To Display Legs Of Which The World Approved--but The Fat Woman's Act Was About The Quiet Conviction That One Shared Only With Oneself, A Sense Of Rightness That Others Failed To See.

We Teach Girls To Shrink Themselves, To Make Themselves Smaller. We Say To Girls 'you Can Have Ambition, But Not Too Much'.

Our Society Teaches A Woman At A Certain Age Who Is Unmarried To See It As A Deep Personal Failure. While A Man At A Certain Age Who Is Unmarried Has Not Quite Come Around To Making His Pick.

One Of The Things That Struck Me When I Came To The U.s. Was Discovering American Poverty.

Race Doesn't Really Exist For You Because It Has Never Been A Barrier. Black Folks Don't Have That Choice.