Sublime

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

And true, unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Adrienne Rich’s book of poems, The Dream of a Common Language.

Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what they want, what they do.

A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become

As Lorde writes, “Erotic is not only a question of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing.”4

So the question arises in my mind, Mary, do you ever really read the work of Black women? Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us? This is not a rhetorical question.

What understanding begins to do is to make knowledge available for use, and that’s the urgency, that’s the push, that’s the drive.

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