“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”

Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.

Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.

It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like bootylicious.

It’s awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship. It’s awful worse luck not to.

We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

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.

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