“There is nothing better for us to do than to take ourselves as we find ourselves and make the best of ourselves. If I find myself, as I did, the daughter of an artist who has left me with broadmindedness and a conveniently strong character to resist temptation, I take myself from there and accomplish what I can… I do not even deserve praise for doing my best, for that is my duty and I deserve to be blamed for not doing my best.”

“There is nothing better for us to do than to take ourselves as we find ourselves and make the best of ourselves. If I find myself, as I did, the daughter of an artist who has left me with broadmindedness and a conveniently strong character to resist temptation, I take myself from there and accomplish what I can… I do not even deserve praise for doing my best, for that is my duty and I deserve to be blamed for not doing my best.”

“It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.”

“Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.”

“Let your life be poetic enough for others to remember it”

“There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wanda”

“Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda”

“So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?”

“What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda”

“One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda”

“My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.”

“We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim...”