If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding
The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.
If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.