God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

You are the root, and only God knows that the flower will be.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness. Authority as you usually think of it, is merely the excues the strone ones use to make others conform to what they want.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.