Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

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

There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.