You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’.
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
It’s possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we’ll make it.
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