Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?