I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.