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.

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

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.

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.

Fact is fact

We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

A demoness is helpless when held by her hair.

Never yawn in front of a lady.

Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

I'm going to have a special prosecutor. We're going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we're going to hold people accountable.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.