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…

- Morgan Parker

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

- Morgan Parker

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

- Morgan Parker

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…

- Morgan Parker

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.

- Morgan Parker

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…

- Morgan Parker

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

- Morgan Parker

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 …

- Morgan Parker

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…

- Morgan Parker