There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.