Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We wanted to believe that it could give word to my inchoate pain and rages; that...
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation against the other?
Tenses are a way of ordering the chaos around time.
It has rained for five daysrunningthe world isa round puddleof sunless waterwhere small islandsare only beginningto copea young boyin my gardenis bailing out waterfrom his flower patchwhen I ask him w...
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children cannot dream unless they live, they cannot live unless they are nourished, and who else will feed them...
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
Each one of us is here because somebody before us did something to make it possible.
The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal.
The Seventh SenseWomenwho build nationslearnto lovemenwho build nationslearnto lovechildrenbuilding sand castlesby the rising sea
If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?
I know certainly, for instance, it's part of the black aesthetic, the whole concept of art as business, art for art's sake, art as the competitive gesture, I connect with a very male-oriented concept...
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that...
Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between...
But anger expressed and translated into action in the service of our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of clarification, for it is in the painful process of this translation...
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppress...
When there is no connection at all between people, then anger is a way of bringing them closer together, of making contact. But when there is a great deal of connectedness that is problematic or threa...