Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Womanist is to feminist as purple to lavender.

We are the people we've been waiting for.

This feeling of being loved and supported by the universe in general and by certain recognizable spirits in particular is bliss.

The world is not good enough--we must make it better.

The more I wonder... the more I love.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

Stories differ from advice in that, once you get them, they become a fabric of your whole soul. That is why they heal you.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Rest in peace. In me the meaning of your lives is still unfolding.

Oh - Just can't keep a real good woman down