I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves..

And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out ….

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not. One type of black woman can exist, but also another kind can exist. I also ….

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it..

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I st….

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not..

After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid o….

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art..

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman t….

I think that fear came from, "Okay, I'm going to have Beyoncé in the title, and people are just going to think, it's Beyoncé poems. It's light and fu….

There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care..

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves..

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny..

There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?" I've been think….

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free..

Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also th….

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil..

The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as one-sided or flat, and I kn….

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of ….

Love makes you smart and strong. Smart enough to know there is nothing else that matters. Strong enough to know that nothing else can weaken you. Whe….

I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write a novel and I'm teaching myself. For that ….