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

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

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

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.

Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.

Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.

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