We are powerful because we have survived
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours?