“High thoughts must have high language.”

“Open your mind before your mouth”

“Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.”

“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”

“These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.”

“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.”

“What can you answer? Now be careful, dont arouse my spite, Or with my slipper Ill take you napping,faces slappingLeft and right.”

“Passionate people say to their obstacles I may fall, I may lose everything I have, but if I still get me, you are still in trouble because am coming back and when I come back, you are doomed. Passi...”

“I don't know what love is,But i know what true love is,It is when two people encourages each other to grow ,Who will let you go out the world and trust that you will come back. This is what true lo...”

“There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”

“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.”