Squeezing it in my palm, I prayed, Please, God, let this seed you planted in me bear fruit.
You got to figure out which end of the needle you’re gon be, the one that’s fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth.
There was a time in Africa the people could fly. Mauma told me this one night when I was ten years old. She said, Handful, your granny-mauma saw it for herself. She say they flew over trees and clouds...
Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
I thought of the girl who bathed in a copper tub. I thought of the woman who stole a bullet mold. I loved that girl, that woman.
I only know there's something unsettling about a door that closes forever. I feel a vague lament about the changing of my body, the alterations in my appearance, the bleeding out of motherhood, the fe...
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say,...
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.
It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn’t contentment, but survival.
Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
He came to see, and I did too, that patriarchy wounds men also, that men have their own journeys to make in order to heal and differentiate themselves from it.
I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.
T. Ray said 'Who do you think you are? Julias Shakespeare?' The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of...
It takes so much energy to keep things at bay.
Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn’t have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log...
Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
It's part of our overall Body Negation Program.
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