Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

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.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

You can just keep going and going and going, and you never get to the end of it because there is no end. The ending is a beginning. If you feel like that, then you accept that wherever you have to stop on this journey, you continue in some other form somewhere else.