You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.