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All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.