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

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.

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

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.

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

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