Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

When a man angers you, he conquers you.