I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

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.

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.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.