When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.