Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.