“When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.”
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When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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.
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
