Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.