Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

A chance for 40 acres and a mule after, after reconstruction it never got, had never got done.

I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.

Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.