Feels so good to be quoted

The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders

In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness

The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

Look within - there is no end!

I am art. I am authentic. I am love. I am me.

Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line

How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

Expand!You are not small. Your Foremothers did not do what they did so you could occupy small!

Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Sounds to me like he's on the toilet.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

The real revolution is the revolution of values

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.