Letter to My Daughter

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

experience in demoting even large adult blacks to psychological dwarfs.

This little light of mine,

I’m going to let it shine,

Let it shine,

Let it shine,

Let it shine.”

How could this privileged young white man understand the heart of a black woman who was sick with guilt because she left her little black son for others to raise?

If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

Blithering ignorance can be found wherever you choose to live

courage is the most important of all the virtues

When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life

I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true