The girl she said, I didn’t tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hea….

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything..

Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in….

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you..

No one will love you more than you love your pain..

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”.

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to k….

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere,….

I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to th….

...women, brave as stars at dawn.

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human..

When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in d….

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too..

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at….

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family….

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, a….

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle..

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form..

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level..

Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but t….

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words..