If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

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

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.