For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
Afraid is a country with no exit visas.
You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.