“You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on ma...”

“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.”

“Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinders eye on the Last Day.”

“Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive.”

“Time to toss the dice”

“Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.”

“I have always found that actively lovingsaves one from a morbid preoccupationwith the shortcomings of society.”

“Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives”

“Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”