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

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.

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.