When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.