The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

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.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

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

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.