It felt amazing to make visible my boundaries.The rumors dissipated, then changed. Eventually I turned down enough men that I became the girl who turned down men.

The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing. Drinking was no longer something to take for granted. I’d never needed to consider water before.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.

If you let go and let God than you will never have to worry about God letting Go

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.