And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

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.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

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