To Begin Is No More Agony Than

That Attitude That Fighting Is Probably Not Fair, But You Have To Defend Yourself Anyway And Damage The Enemy, Has Been Profoundly Consequential As Far As My Political Activism Goes.

If Any Of Us Hopes To Survive, She Must Meet The Extremity Of The American Female Condition With Immediate And Political Response. The Thoroughly Destructive And Indefensible Subjugation Of The Majority Of Americans Cannot Continue Except At The Peril Of The Entire Body Politic.

... The Histories Of Blacks And Jews In Bondage And Out Of Bondage, Have Been Blood Histories Pursued Through Our Kindred Searchings For Self-determination. Let This Blood Be A Stain Of Honor That We Share. Let Us Not Now Become Enemies To Ourselves And To Each Other.

Good Poetry And Successful Revolution Change Our Lives. And You Cannot Compose A Good Poem Or Wage A Revolution Without Changing Consciousness Unless You Attack The Language That You Share With Your Enemies And Invent A Language That You Share With Your Allies.

I Am The History Of The Rejection Of Who I Am