You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

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