Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

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

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

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

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Revolution is not a one time event.