We are hated because of the color of our skin. Yet some people lie in the sun for hours or go into an oven and bake themselves to get our color. They stick a needle into their lips to make them luscious like ours but they hate us.

If you want to change yourself then you hate yourself first. Your hatred then flows to the person you want to be. As my father used to say, “Jealousy is ah hell of ah thing.”

My grandfather Leounce Valentine, had taste and he was smart. He married an African woman.