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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

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.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and...

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

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.

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.

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