We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.

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

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.