". But because they are in some ways the beneficiaries of racism-they are racists!"

"I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep"

"they were just tasting a little teeny bit of what was racism and fascism and the horror of what was happening in the …"

"I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along"

"I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a ra…"

"I didn't care about being integrated or accepted"

"It occurred to me that being what they call 'colored,' being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage"

"If I could be - somebody could think of me and feel encouraged"

"I felt envious of what I thought was the male prerogative"

"the dreams stay in my head, they haunt me, they push me and become a kick to my consciousness, making me act"