Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

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

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

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up

nice is such a rip-off.