Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.