Without community, there is no liberation.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?