Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word out there to make it a good word in a big way by putting it in big letters on the stage, and especially because she was quoting the African novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who said, "We should all be feminists." She's a very accomplished and important novelist.

I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

Law and justice are not always the same.

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.