I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.
Novels allow me to create a whole world.
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.
i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
somebody anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin struggle hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.
I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
Your decision to walk creates the path ahead
Oscove?" Valek paused. "He didn't have the stomach for it.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.