We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

The future is in good hands.

I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.