I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.
I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
