I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

...Love isn’t saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat

Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them

That’s the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.

If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r’asscloth mouth

Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope.

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it

hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower

Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no past. I loved you then and I love you now.

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through!

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to go to Europe, to go to Africa, to go traveling.