I Was Born Black And Female.

Seems Like God Don't See Fit To Give The Black Man Nothing But Dreams - But He Did Give Us Children To Make Them Dreams Seem Worthwhile.

A Status Not Freely Chosen Or Entered Into By An Individual Or A Group Is Necessarily One Of Oppression And The Oppressed Are By Their Nature (i.e., Oppressed) Forever In Ferment And Agitation Against Their Condition And What They Understand To Be Their Oppressors. If Not By Overt Rebellion Or Revolution, Then In The Thousand And One Ways They Will Devise With And Without Consciousness To Alter Their Condition

What You Ain't Never Understood Is That I Ain't Got Nothing, Don't Own Nothing, Ain't Never Really Wanted Nothing That Wasn't For You. There Ain't Nothing As Precious To Me...there Ain't Nothing Worth Holding On To, Money, Dreams, Nothing Else--

I Was Born Black And Female.

[t]here Is Only One Large Circle That We March In, Around And Around, Each Of Us With Our Own Little Picture -- In Front Of Us -- Our Own Little Mirage That We Think Is The Future.