Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?.

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line da….

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring..

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach..

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting..

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . ..

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning..