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.

one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

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.

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

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've never thought of leaving the South, never.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.