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“If we generic gay and lesbian whitefolks set as our movement's goal being assimilated into American culture, getting 'our piece of the pie,' we ignore or deny the reality that gay and lesbian people of color will never be assimilated in the same way within this system because it was constituted to exclude them.”
― Mab Segrest

“I tell you, Chickadee
I am afraid of people
Who cannot cry
Tears left unshed
Turn to poison
In the ducts
Ask the next soldier you see
Enjoying a massacre
If this is not so.

People who do not cry
Are victims
Of soul mutilation
Paid for in Marlboros
And trucks.

Violence does not work
Except for the man
Who pays your salary
Who knows
If you could still weep
You would not take the job.”
― Alice Walker

“I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.”
― Alice Walker

“My eyes fell on the gray linoleum floor and I wondered how many other women had sat on this toilet and stared at this floor. Each of them the center of their own world, all of them yearning for someone to put their love into so they could see their love, see that they had it.”
― Miranda July, The First Bad Man