Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.
Revolution is not a one time event.
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger society as well as from any single-sub-society--black or gay--I felt I didn't have to try so hard. To be accepted. To l...
Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy, in the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, harkening to...
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Places do not change so much as what we seek in them
The terror of Black Lesbians is buried in that deep inner place where we have been taught to fear all difference—to kill or ignore it. Be assured: loving women is not a communicable disease. You don’t...
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
My body writes into your fleshthe poemyou make of me.Recreation
What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.
Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.
I seek no favor untouched by blood.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent...
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence wo...
You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.
If I participate, knowingly or otherwise, in my sister's oppression and she calls me on it, to answer her anger with my own only blankets the substance of our exchange with reaction. It wastes energy....
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic