When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.

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.

Be grateful for every sacred breath.

You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows?

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

I want to show what hard work and dedication and sacrifice can achieve.