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

You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

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

Art is not living. It is the use of living.