I'm satisfied with it, but there's nothing that's enough.

I was appalled. It was just shocking. I'm a woman and a black woman. Every woman needs to be angry about this. Every man and every child. Duke is trying to hide this and they're not going to get away with it.

Only Mama could have something good come out of this. She used to say with life, you can't just take the good without having the bad--it wouldn't be life.

It's almost like a sign from Mama to make it easier for us _ something positive to focus on today. It's like she's telling us, 'See? I told you'd it'd be OK--just hang in there.

A lot of us, myself included, have had offers from Harvard and Stanford and Berkeley ? this happens all the time.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.