My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

Mother illuminated to me the kindliest light this world has ever known, which has endowed literature and the theatre with their greatest and richest themes: love, pity and humanity.

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.