You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.