Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?