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I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

A woman will tell you
every home she has ever inhabited
has been broken into
starting with her body

I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

I cried when i saw those
buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

In the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

I will not dance to your war drum!

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.