Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

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

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

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