“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. B...”

“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”

“Desire is the kind of thing thateats youandleaves you starving.”

“younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you”

“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.”

“never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them,you are invisible.”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”

“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.”