"Have reached the height of self-determination: we no longer obey any authority, neither family nor religious. We know…"

"I’m afraid for my life and the lives of my family."

"My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honor."

"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangl…"

"Our laws then will be uncompulsory rules, Our prisons converted to national schools."

"Oppression and war will be heard of no more, Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will …"

"Her death was the loss of a dedicated anti-racist, a valued sister, and a friend we loved...Andaiye's anthology, publ…"

"The theorist should not let us forget the poet."

"No longer is it a matter of the narrow roads where traditional beauty is offered in its clarity and obviousness to th…"

"Our problem now is to determine whether the Ethiopian attitude that we discovered was the very essence of our whole w…"