Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

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.

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

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