Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.