But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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.
Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
