To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.