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

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

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

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

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.

The words loved me and I loved them in return.

I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.