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.

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.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

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.

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

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.