Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.