In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

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

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.