“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves youeven with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if ...”

“If youre looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No ones ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.(Malcolm Kavanaugh)”

“I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots”

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“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.”