Art is not living. It is the use of living.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

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

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

Our visions begin with our desires.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.