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our dreams draw blood from old sores.


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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.

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.



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Where there is a woman there is magic.



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Creation is everything you do. Make something.



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



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



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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.

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.



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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.





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A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.



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All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.



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I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.




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