You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

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

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Being able to laugh got me through.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.