Walidah

“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”
― Wole Soyinka

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker

“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ”
― Oscar Wilde

“I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat”
― Eduardo Galeano