Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. , to affirm that the exertion of pow...
It has rained for five daysrunningthe world isa round puddleof sunless waterwhere small islandsare only beginningto copea young boyin my gardenis bailing out waterfrom his flower patchwhen I ask him w...
I lost my sister, Gennie, to my silence and her pain and despair, to both our angers and to a world’s cruelty that destroys its own young in passing - not even as a rebel gesture or sacrifice or hope...
I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?
How are you practicing what you preach—whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?
Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences,...
We have been sad long enough to make this earth either weep or grow fertile.
Survival is the greatest gift of love
No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.
It's difficult to talk about double messages without having a twin tongue.
I wasn't cute or passive enough to be femme, and I wasn't mean or tough enough to be butch. I was given a wide berth. Non-conventional people can be dangerous, even in the gay community.
How much of this truth can I bear to see and still liveunblinded?How much of this paincan I use?
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
Tell them about how you’re never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there’s always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets m...
Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a , which each one of us within our hearts knows that is not me. In america, this norm is usually defined as white, thin, male, young, het...
Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address eac...
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for liberation must be. For we must move against not only those forces which dehumanize us from...