I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.