Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.