is always easiest when it is removed, academic. - Audre Lorde

For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others — for their use and to our detriment. The development of self-defined Black women, ready to explore and pursue our power and interests within our communities, is a vital component in the war for Black liberation.

We do not have to live the same mistakes over again if we can look at them, learn from them, and build upon them.

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