In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

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.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?