Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

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

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

there is no politically neutral art.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.