...oppression is as American as apple pie... - Audre Lorde

"I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!"

"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

"For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us."

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."