"Naming in my culture will tell you more about the parent of the child than the child themself and also what is being …"

"I think it felt challenging because I was a Black woman and also because I was a dark-skinned Black woman, because th…"

"…When my mother left me — if we believe in these sort of things — she came to me in my dream a week later and she sai…"

"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangl…"

"Our laws then will be uncompulsory rules, Our prisons converted to national schools."

"Oppression and war will be heard of no more, Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will …"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."