Sublime

This is one reason why the erotic is so feared, and so often relegated to the bedroom alone, when it is recognized at all. For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowled

Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

Yes, I am Black and Lesbian, and what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority. There is a difference.

Difference is strength, a prerequisite for creativity that allows individual growth and communal political innovation. Lorde’s

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those differences.

Vito Marcantonio

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.