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.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

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

The revolution begins at home.

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

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

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