She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.