Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.

End of a dream is the beginning of a new dream

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.