“The Devil teaches women what they are or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”

“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a ship, regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of 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.”