Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.