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

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

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!

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

The soul never grows old.

In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good." -Master George

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Every single person wants to do it, don't hate me because I had the guts to follow my heart!

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.