I get angry about things, then go on and work.
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
