I'm very aware that we make these decisions toward love or hate every day. I certainly don't have the stamina to live through each day making only the noblest decisions.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.