“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”

“A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.”

“Death is a shadow that always follows the body”

“The absent are always wrong.”

“Everyone must row with the oars he has.”

“The shortest answer is doing.”

“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.”