i found god in myselfand i loved heri loved her fiercely

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.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

It was tough. I told [my kids] mommy is on her semester abroad, which is still going on apparently.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.