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" The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. "

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" 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. "

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

" The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. "

" 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. "

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

" 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, 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. "

" 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 as destructive as any imposed by racism. "

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

" I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. "

" Our visions begin with our desires. "

" Your silence will not protect you. "

" 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. "

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

" When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. "

" There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. "

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

" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "

" I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "