Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare..

We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own..

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

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

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carv….

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of diffe….

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enoug….

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

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself..

‎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 ….

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

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….

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

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….

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the oth….

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unm….

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….

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

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

For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions aga….

Our visions begin with our desires..