Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

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.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.