All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

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.

You are the one that you are looking for.