Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

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.

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.