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

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.

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.

My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t do, or did.

School friends rarely remembered, hardly forgotten...!!

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

You can't conserve what you haven't got.

We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate.