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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way.