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.

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.

nice is such a rip-off.

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.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

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.

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