I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.