Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.
Being happy is not the only happiness.
But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like- when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
I think unless the people are given information about what is happening to them, they will die in ignorance. And I think that's the big sin. I mean if there is such a thing as a sin, that's it, to destroy people and not have them have a clue about how this is happening.
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
People always want to keep you in a little box or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?