Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then her only option becomes deviance. I chose deviance. I chose to be a loving dissident. To dance the dance of dissidence. This stance can be assumed from the inside or the outside. Whichever place we choose, the important thing is having the sustained will to be, act, and speak from the ground of our feminine souls.

We must err , do so on the side of audacity

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

"Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."