I Am Not Just A Lesbian. I

In Our Work And In Our Living, We Must Recognize That Difference Is A Reason For Celebration And Growth, Rather Than A Reason For Destruction.

Out Of My Flesh That Hungers And My Mouth That Knows Comes The Shape I Am Seeking For Reason.

I Am Deliberate And Afraid Of Nothing.

And This Is A Grave Responsibility, Projected From Within Each Of Us, Not To Settle For The Convenient, The Shoddy, The Conventionally Expected, Nor The Merely Safe.

The Difference Between Poetry And Rhetoric Is Being Ready To Kill Yourself Instead Of Your Children.