I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?