“Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.”

“Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.”

“Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.”

“Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.”

“I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.”

“Our work is not about transcending this world to get to a better place; our work is to be fully present here; to heal ourselves, and our planet in the spirit of service and compassion.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“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.”