She was born Sarah Breedlove on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana, where her parents had been slaves. At 14, she married to get a home of her own, to get away from a cruel brother-in-law with whom she was living. At 17, she had her only child, A'Lelia, who I'm named after.
I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.
Wearing your hair natural is a positive statement about who you are. It's not a protest to somebody else. It's affirming you.
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
