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“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.”
“Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.”
“I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?”
“Dark-bright fire lit eyes”
“Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it get...”
“Black men are not so passive that they must have Black women speak for them. Even my fourteen-year-old son knows that. Black men themselves must examine and articulate their own desires and positio...”
“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let an...”
“No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.”
“Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.”
“This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us,...”
“Love is a word, another kind of open.As the diamond comesinto a knot of flameI am Blackbecause I come from the earth's insidetake my word for jewelin the open light.”
“I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persist...”
“Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.”
“I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.”
“While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.”
“Our visions begin with our desires.”
“He pondered that a little while and then he asked, do Black people have to pay for their doctors, too? Because that's what TV programs had said. I smiled a little at this and told him it's not only...”
