Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.