I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

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

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.