No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. The king was pregnant. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. I decided it is better to scream. . . .
Silence is the real crime against humanity.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others. The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain. I know what every colored woman in this country is doing. . . . Just like me.