I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

One's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.