"I feel black women, specifically, have a history of being erased in terms of their literary contributions in America’…"

"That title, I think, really captures the need to travel through life in an artistic sense, in a personal sense, a cre…"

"A lot of my language is always slightly heightened—I’ll throw in alliterations, rhymes, play with onomatopoeia, peopl…"

"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."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"

"I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't politically defend it."

"Got me mad as shit (yeah), so I slapped the bitch."