Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.