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

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

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.