Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.