I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.