In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

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.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.