Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
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.