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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

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

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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.

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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.

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The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

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

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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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