There is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. The Uses of Anger : Women Responding to Racism (1981)
Black feminists speak as women because we are women and do not need others to speak for us. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
As women, we need to examine the ways in which our world can be truly different. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)