“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”

“Waiting for the pen to dry up so he can start fresh with thoughts that are worth new ink.”

“i keep drinking the ink from my pen
and i'm balancing history books up on my head
but it all boils down to one quotable phrase
if you love something give it away”

“They done
Wrong
Like ink from a busted pen
Thrown away 'cause of someone else
Used up
But he come back
Dressed in night
Fine as a king
With his queen
The wrong
Made right
So right.”

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

“I am a galley slave to pen and ink.”

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?”

“What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?”

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”