The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

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

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

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.