"I was blessed by parents who had come from pretty limited, modest circumstances, and had risen to the top of their fi…"

"Well I was concerned, back even at that early age of not quite 28, that as an African American woman entering the fie…"

"I was close to President Obama and he was a target…I'm an African American woman. I don't take crap off of people. An…"

"There is particular danger at the moment that powerful political alignments in the United States are pushing strongly…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"