Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

All important things are hard.

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.