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.

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.