“I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.”

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.

How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.

It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Your silence will not protect you.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

We are all in the process of becoming.

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.