“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. M...”

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”

“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”

“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.”