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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I’ve gone through hell and back.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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’.

Life with another person is always difficult.

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.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

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.