We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

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.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

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

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .