Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

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?

These people will try to manipulate you, try to bring you down but remember baby girl you are a queen, own your crown.

I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

I don't think I'm successful.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

I think it's a Pew survey of Millennials, and the first one is that more and more Millennial-aged women are ashamed and embarrassed that they earn more than their husbands or boyfriends.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.