To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That’s power.

We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never...

Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery!...

Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene.” “Well, I’m gonna make a movie if you don’t show me some respect.

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, “Of course, and I can talk too.

Vendetta is the word, except it isn’t strong enough.

Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK ’cause we were busy planning to win.

I was beautiful; after all, my skin was as rich and dark as wet, brown mud, a complexion that any and every pale white girl would pray for – that is, if she believed in...