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

If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.