Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

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.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.