“Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us ...”

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”

“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”

“Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.”

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

“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.”