We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

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.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.