Being oppressed means the absence of choices

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.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.

We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.