I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.

Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.

what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.