“Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice i...”

“He said that he was sorry but Robert Bey had called and told him i was no longer in the party. I was burnt. I got the Bronx Ministry to put him on the phone and proceeded to call him the unprincipl...”

“It seemed that there was no time to catch up with all the things that were happening. I would be at the construction workers' demonstration one day and then marching with the welfare mothers the ne...”

“Most of us felt that taking control of our neighborhoods was the first step toward liberation...First, we would take control of the schools; then we would take control of the hospitals; then we wou...”

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become...”

“The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.”

“There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.”

“To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!”

“When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women...”

“Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.”

“In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech is one citizens soul-searing plea with his countrymenWhites and Blacksto recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotr...”