Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.