I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.