"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."

"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."

"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."

"The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior."

"By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities."

"It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority."

"If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them."

"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program."