I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

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

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority