It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

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 know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.