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.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

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

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.

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.

When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.