I'm Not An Angry Woman. I'm Not

We Get Divorce, We Get Conned, Someone We Love Dies, Or We Can't Find Anybody To Love Us Or Somebody Breaks Our Heart And We Realize This Fairy Tale Ain't Fair. So We Suffer.

Too Many Of Us Are Hung Up On What We Don't Have, Can't Have, Or Won't Ever Have. We Spend Too Much Energy Being Down, When We Could Use That Same Energy – If Not Less Of It – Doing, Or At Least Trying To Do, Some Of The Things We Really Want To Do.

Don't Sabotage Your Own Greatness By Succumbing To Failure!

I'd Crack Up Without My Music. It's The Best Company You Can Have, Really. It Don't Say 'no' Or 'maybe,' Or Ask No Questions.

I Don't Trust White Critics' Judgment About Most Things That Deal With Black Life, Particularly When A Black Person Is The Creator.