“... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.”

“I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.”

“... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.”

“Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.”

“a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body”