“I am what I am and you can't take it away with all the words and sneers at your command.”

“I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.”

“It’s the Poverty.I lack imagination you say No. I lack language. The language to clarifymy resistance to the literate. Words are a war to me. They threaten my family.To gain the word to describe the loss I risk losing everything. I may create a monster the word’s length and bodyswelling up colorful and thrillinglooming over my mother, characterized.Her voice in the distanceunintelligible illiterate.These are the monster’s words.”

“Don't let the past steal your present.”

“When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.”

“The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.”

“We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want freedom for all of us.”