Right Now Being Born A Girl Is

Being Alive And Being A Woman Is All I Got, But Being Colored Is A Metaphysical Dilemma I Haven't Conquered Yet.

I Am Gonna Write Poems Til I Die And When I Have Gotten Outta This Body I Am Gonna Hang Round In The Wind And Knock Over Everybody Who Got Their Feet On The Ground.

Right Now Being Born A Girl Is To Be Born Threatened.

Where There Is A Woman There Is Magic.

In Our Ordinaryness We Are Most Bizarre.