I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

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

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.