The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger. - Audre Lorde

Racism: The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance.

Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change. And when I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in those assumptions underlining our lives.

The erotic cannot be felt secondhand.