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.

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.