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.

My fear of anger taught me nothing.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

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 I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.