The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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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.Audre Lorde
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 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.
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If I waited to be right before I spoke, I would be sending little cryptic messages on the Ouija board, complaints from the other side.
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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