I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

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

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

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.

If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.