Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.