Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

African tradition deals with life as an experience to be lived. In many respects, it is much like the Eastern philosophies in that we see ourselves as a part of a life force; we are joined, for instance, to the air, to the earth. We are part of the whole-life process. We live in accordance with, in a kind of correspondence with the rest of the world as a whole. And therefore living becomes an experience, rather than a problem, no matter how bad or how painful it may be.

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.