As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

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

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.