QUOTES
“If any of us hopes
to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with
immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible
subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of
the entire body politic.”
“As
a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite
evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human
use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But
as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and
the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language
of my people in America.”
To
rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody:
we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we
will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come
and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little
child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting
and hurting for love and for beauty.
