It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.