I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.
We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I'm happy to open the doors for a younger generation of fat, black women to be visible, to be seen, to be heard.
Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.
The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.
