One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.