Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak..

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep th….

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all ov….

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of i….

Divide and conquer must become define and empower..

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dream….

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor ….

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions.

What I leave behind has a life of its own..

Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want….

Revolution is not a one time event..

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest ….

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired t….

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you..

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences..

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul..

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 ….

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upo….

We are powerful because we have survived.

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stre….