Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

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

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

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

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.