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

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.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.