[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.