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."

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

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

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.