Quotes by Jill Scott

Ive been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. Thats the point of poetry. Youre supposed to go, Hmmmm, and Woooh!

I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, Youre really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something. And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

I didnt leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didnt have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.