Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood.

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

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.

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