Possibility is neither forever nor instant.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

documentation does not help one perceive. At best it only analyzes the perception. At worst, it provides a screen by which to avoid concentrating on the core revelation, following it down to how it feels.

The women who sustained me through that period were Black and

Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.

Am I altering your aura, your ideas, your dreams, or am I merely moving you to temporary and reactive action?

knowledge and understanding. They can function in concert, but they don’t replace each other.

I have heard that accusation, that I’m contributing to the stereotype, that I’m saying the province of intelligence and rationality belongs to the white male. But if you’re traveling a road that begins nowhere and ends nowhere, the ownership of that road is meaningless. If you have no land out of which the road comes, no place that road goes to,

is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish.