There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

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.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

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