All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

People are called 'stars' not only because they shine... because the qualities they exemplify are... eternal. We are attracted to their sparkle, their warmth, their light, but they will be forever distant from us. So distant we can never quite believe our inseparability. Never quite believe that we are also composed of the light they have.

What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.