Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

Life luscious wet life bereft of death, loss of empty shell minus absent of nothing exploding star cell amoeba sweet algae oxygen, hydrogen flowering in the vacuum ofspace and magnetic motion.

She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.

Chances don't approach you, it's you who approach chances.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

The horizon of love is truly boundless: it is the whole world!

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.