The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.
The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth. . . she is the only flower on earth. . . that grows unwatered.
I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.
While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.
I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.
I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D. C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.
I have a Volvo S60R and its a pretty fast car, the R says it all.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
No compact among men. . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.