“A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds”

Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.

Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite.

Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

The way things could be…and they should be, but they’re not.

Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs.