“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
