The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is pla….

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own..

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does..

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives..

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive..

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society.

Without community, there is no liberation..

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries..

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill..

… our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Th….

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings..

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the….

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized..

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on..

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can p….

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak..

The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and….

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring ….

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction..

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid..

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare..