You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

You are the one that you are looking for.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

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

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.