The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

Language is also a place of struggle.

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

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