i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody n….

Where there is a woman there is magic..

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vaca….

i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely.

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….

Creation is everything you do. Make something..

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things….

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to b….

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness..

I've never thought of leaving the South, never..

somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song o….

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows..

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 themse….

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..

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre..

Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her ….

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

one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open ….

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened..

nice is such a rip-off..

our dreams draw blood from old sores..