There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

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.

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.