Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

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.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

You are the one that you are looking for.