Serena Zhang

“but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical
dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point
my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face

my love is too delicate to have thrown back on my face

my love is too beautiful to have thrown back on my face

my love is too sanctified to have thrown back on my face

my love is too magic to have thrown back on my face

my love is too saturday nite to have thrown back on my face

my love is too complicated to have thrown back on my face

my love is too music to have thrown back on my face”
― Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

“My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“Thus I fled, ridiculous hairy creature torn apart by poetry”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“The future is as dark, as unreal, as the past.”
― John Gardner, Grendel