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.

Love is the only effective counter to death.

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.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

all deaths are one's own.

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

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