I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.

Everybody has an inside scoop, so just be a nice guy. Be a nice person.

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you.