I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

We love to love and feel loved because love is the greatest pleasure of all.

In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.

I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to have.

They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

There is no way forward that isn’t through pain.