“Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.”

“Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.”

“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.”

“I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.”

“Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.”

“Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“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 am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”