If You Say A Word

Confidence Is The Mark Of A Hopeful Disposition.

You Hang Around Actors, Or Dancers, The Minute You Sneeze, Everybody Has A Remedy, And We're All On A Million Different Kinds Of Diets, And Different Kinds Of Things That We Do For Exercise.

Those In The Margins Are Always Trying To Get To The Center, And Those At The Center, Frequently In The Name Of Tradition, Are Trying To Keep The Margins At A Distance.

I Was A Mimic When I Was A Child. I Mimicked The Teacher And Made Friends That Way, Actually. That Was A Very Subversive Activity, Because I Was A Goody-goody Who Never Got In Trouble. But If I Went Off In The Corner And Mimicked The Teacher, People Loved It.

I Feel Like My Work Has Been My Path To Freedom From Having Grown Up In A Segregated Environment.