Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. And in order to survive they must let go. This is what mothers teach — love, survival — that is, self-definition and letting go.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.