- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
- Bruised
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020