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I found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely

I got 15 trumpets where other women got hips
& a upright bass for both sides of my heart

Through my tears
I found god in myself
and I loved her fiercely

Our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Nice is such a rip-off.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

My spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender

In our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

I've never thought of leaving the South, never.

What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

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.

Multiculturalism is a white people joke.

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

I done forgot all abt words
aint got no definitions

When words & manners leave you no space for yourself
make
very personal
very clear
& your obstructions will join you or disappear.

Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened ...