As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

Revolution is not a one time event.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

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.

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives