You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.