At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from the real world. I write about it so we can feel empowered to doing the critical work that this generation of black women are charged with doing.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.