Novels allow me to create a whole world.

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.

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.

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

I said all along that God is in control.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.