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

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.

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.

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?

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.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

You don't know how you got there or how it's going to end, but how you deal when you´re in it is what makes you a man

I'd love to be a writer one day

From my Facebook Page: "You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of

There are never enough I Love You's.

Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there be words not made with lungs.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.