There is a power in weakness, but its power is to draw everything from somebody else. It's not to give. So it's not a healthy power. It is not. It will drain you.
Black women have to understand the same.
You've got to move with your time and with what the times require. Moving forward today means that relationships between men and women are being reinvented in every fundamental respect. There's no way to get around that and the only question is how we do it in our community. I hope we will choose not to simply imitate the existing patterns in our country, because we start off with a greater pattern of equality that comes out of our history. We are in a period of demographic imbalance that is very dangerous.