I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.

We are pregnant with freedom.

I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.