The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

Where there is a woman there is magic.