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.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

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

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.