Without community, there is no liberation.

Revolution is not a one time event.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.