If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

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

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

Your silence will not protect you.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.