The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

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

We are all in the process of becoming.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.