How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

Love is the only effective counter to death.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?