You Can Call Me Mama

My Roots Are African. The Birds I Remember, The Fruits I Ate, The Trees I Climbed, They're African.

It's Time That We Acknowledge The Wisdom Women Have Acquired By Managing The Chaos Of Daily Life. Women Are Realists, The Glue That Holds Society Together. They Bring A Reverence To Life That's Instinctual, Not Just Intellectual.

When You're Threatened, Or Something Hard Hits You, Acknowledge It, Embrace It. Don't Pretend That You Didn't Get Hurt - Hurt, Cry, Think About It. And Then You Let It Go And Try Something Else.

As A Young Woman, I Attended Witwatersrand University In Johannesburg, South Africa, Which Was Then Not Segregated. But I Witnessed The Weight Of Apartheid Everywhere Around Me.

I'm More Old-fashioned Than A Lot Of Women...i Don't View Abortion As Just A Nothing. It Is Stopping The Process Of Life.