I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.