Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.
We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.
Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.
No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.
The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
ka-lyrra, --FROM THE (GREATLY REVISED) BLACK EDITION OF THE O'CALLAGHAN
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.
..I resent the jerk part. I’m meaner than that....
A good book is an event in my life.
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” - Owen
