When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

...women, brave as stars at dawn