All nationalisms are expressions of ideology that brings large numbers of people together to resist oppressive, dominant, intrusive systems. - Patricia McFadden

The whole idea of buying and selling Africans was a brutal exercise in dehumanizing us, and the societies that benefitted from this brutality have remained essentially slaving societies. Africans everywhere held onto the ancestral spiritual traditions and practices of humanism within the self and community – and the ties with those who came before – so as to survive the brutality of hatred.

Feminists always create new languages. The normative language is inadequate to say what we want to say and to do what we want to do.

When you are born, you arrive on this planet with everything you need. It is inside you, you just have to explore it and bring it to the collective human project of freedom.