. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt..

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….

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?.

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around ….

Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in o….

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from….

How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some words are open. Love is a word ….

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. ... pain will always either change or stop. Alway….

[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through al….

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist a….

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share ….

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

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason..

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can ….

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines..

When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reasses….

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 Lesb….

When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that….

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerf….

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person.….

I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible..