Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

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

rain is one thing the British do better than anybody else.

If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Feminism has to do with everything in the world, a vision of how the world can be. I have great doubts about Utopias, but I just keep on thinking there is a better way to live than the way we live now.

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?

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.