I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.
From Alice Walker
People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Fear is real, but so is love.
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
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