“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”

“I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays its no good being a cabbage unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itsel...”

“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”

“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

“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.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“Dont feel ashamed of working hard! Believe that things will change.”

“Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.”

“Hearts will break and people will hurt you, darling. Her mother said. But when you let those people control your outlook on the life, you only allow them to have a greater hold on your happiness. O...”