What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

I desperately want children. I want like four of them. But I will never have them, I mean at least with the current circumstances, living with my boyfriend.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

As long as you live, learn how to live.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.