How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?