Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

The revolution begins at home.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.