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

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

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 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.

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