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

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.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

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.

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

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