my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

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.

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.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Trust is the only thing that can help relationships last a lifetime!

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.