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.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

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 have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.