I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.