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.

Quote by Audre Lorde

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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the...

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the...

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

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

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the...

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the...

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel...

Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel...

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of...

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of...

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there...

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there...

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

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

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives...

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives...

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have...

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have...

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the...

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the...

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our...

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our...

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues:...

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues:...

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason...

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason...

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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

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

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

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

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes...

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes...

Your silence will not protect you.

Your silence will not protect you.

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

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

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to...

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to...