The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

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

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.