Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow

When we’re all living in the space of the inner child, loving, honoring, respecting, and embracing its desires, we are at peace.

A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

I might kiss you. I might be bad at it. That's not possible.

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.