My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
“To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”
“At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.”