Life did not stop, and one had to live..

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection ….

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy..

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry..

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls.….

I don't like to read novelizations of movies..

You can't find what doesn't exist, but you can create it..

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious..

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own..

It was noted long ago that the front row of burlesque houses was occupied predominantly by bald-headed men. In fact, such a row became known as the b….

The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to unders….

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, makin….

I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which o….

If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America..

If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, ….

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room..

How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all the….

This is for my G's, this is for my Hustlas..

Women don't have an expiration date..