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.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

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.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.