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

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

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

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.

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.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

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