"If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders."
"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
"We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine."
"When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You’re your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don’t yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you’ve been."
"Don’t be afraid of opening your mouth and speaking your truth. The world will try to silence you every chance it gets simply because you are black and a woman."
"But I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy, trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me."