The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

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.

I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

We are powerful because we have survived