“I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.”
Tagged: inspirational
“I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.”
Tagged: death letter-to-my-daughter
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”
Tagged: writing
“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
Tagged: poetry
“Listen! If stars are litIt means there is someone who needs it,It means someone wants them to be,That someone deems those specks of spitMagnificent!”
“I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.”
Tagged: inspiration poetry
“That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.”
“Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith”
Tagged: romance
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Tagged: love
“I know this woman.”“Who the hell is she?”He stared both his brothers down. “She’s mine.”
Tagged: romance romantic-suspense
“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”
Tagged: family inspirational
“It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.”
“I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He’ll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me,”
“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.”
Tagged: Love Music Beautiful