“It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.”

“We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to u...”

“Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.”

“If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.”

“Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.”

“I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.”

“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.”

“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedn...”

“I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was a...”

“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”

“My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.”