Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we deal with sameness only, we develop weapons that we use against each other when the differences become apparent. And we wipe each other out - Black men and women can wipe each other out - far more effectively than outsiders do.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.