We had to break those laws or agree to the slaveholder's image of us: three fifths of a human being. - June Jordan

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

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.

In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.