We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

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 other parts of self.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.