“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”

“Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here ther...”

“What's a fuck when what I want is love?”

“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”

“The continent is full of buried violence, of the bones of antediluvian monsters and of lost races of man, of mysteries which are wrapped in doom. The atmosphere is at times so electrical that the s...”

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”

“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.”