Sublime

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

When language becomes most similar, it becomes most dangerous, for then differences may pass unremarked.

While we fortify ourselves with visions of the future, we must arm ourselves with accurate perceptions of the barriers between us and that future.

We share a common interest, survival, and it cannot be pursued in isolation from others simply because their differences make us uncomfortable.

Nenna Joiner

It is not the anger of Black women which corrodes into blind, dehumanizing power, bent upon the annihilation of us all unless we meet it with what we have, our power to examine and to redefine the terms upon which we will live and work; our power to envision and to reconstruct, anger by painful anger, stone upon heavy stone, a future of pollinating

we all shared a war against the tyrannies of silence.