Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

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.

It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.