Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.