The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

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.