Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

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

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 master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.