“Someday, well run into each other again, I know it.Maybe Ill be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,thats when Ill deserve you. But now, at this moment, you cant hook your boat...”

“You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just ...”

“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”

“In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.”

“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”

“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”

“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.”