Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.