Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.

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.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.

It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

People are never perfect, but love can be.