The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.

How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

Homer no function beer well without.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.