You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

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

I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.