Where there is a woman there is magic.

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.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

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

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

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.

Master your mind and you'll master the world around you.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

When people get scared, they quit giving.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

How my achievements mock me!