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

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

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.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

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.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.