Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

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

When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.