And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life

Feels so good to be quoted

The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders

In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness

The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Look within - there is no end!

I am art. I am authentic. I am love. I am me.

Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.

Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.

'Either you run the day, or the day runs you.' Hope y'all had a good one.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have.