We are powerful because we have survived

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

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

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

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

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.