The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.- Audre Lorde
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
It's a struggle but that is why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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 would save us, but it would not.
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
