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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.