“Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.”

“This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.”

“Who says I can’t be free?
From all of the things that I used to be.
Re-write my history.
Who says I can’t be free?”

“Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.”

“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”

“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”

“I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

“The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.”

“That gets us out of deciding how to spell Reg[ eE] xp?|RE... Of course, then we have to decide what ref $re returns…”

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”