Unless you accept white male standards of conduct, standards that castigate women for our 'emotionality,' our tears, our tendencies to take human lif… - June Jordan

If we collaborate with the powerful then our language will lose its currency as a means to tell the truth in order to change the truth.

I am saying that the ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is not only who you are, in other words, but what we can do for each other that will determine the connection.

Education has paralleled the life of prospering white America: it has been characterized by reverence for efficiency, cultivation of competence unattended by concern for aim, big white lies, and the mainly successful blackout of Black life.