I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light..

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time….

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differenc….

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation withou….

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what..

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our wor….

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children..

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person….

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of B….

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions..

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast..

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love..

If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you….

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of ….

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across ou….

Silence has never brought us anything of worth..

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same re….

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot..

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understandin….

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt..

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created..