Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.