Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

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.

i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

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.