“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.