Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.

The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis.

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

If you can't stop thinking about your job, in a positive way that energizes you, then you're probably where you're meant to be.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.