“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
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When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
