i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

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.

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.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened.

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .