All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

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 the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.