The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

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

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

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.