Oppression is as American as apple pie.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

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

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.