“He put the knuckles of his fist to the table, leaned toward Niles and spoke quietly, cuttingly, in his rough, gravelly voice.Fucked her last night, man, and this morning. Five times. Five. It was l...”

“Not one fuckin thing gentlemanly about protecting whats yours. Looks like youre gonna lose it, you do everything you can to stop that from happening. Max looked back to Niles. And you didnt do that...”

“I looked to the ceiling and told God, God, next time I want an adventure, strike me with lightning. You have my permission.”

“That top," he said when he dipped his face close, and I realized his voice sounded funny. It was intense but it was also hoarse like when we were fooling around and I understood why when he again s...”

“You should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think.”

“How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to ...”

“I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm.”

“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.”