Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

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.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.