I used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these whitefolks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think that i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke & dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

School should be eleven months of the year.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Death is a slave's freedom.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.