“The erotic is a resource within each one of us that lies in a very deeply female and spiritual plane. It is firmly rooted in the power of all our unexpressed and unrecognized feelings. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of theContinue reading “The Uses of the Erotic – Audre Lorde”
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dispatch from the hill
the people are beautiful, interesting, hardworking, tired. the city is aliveshimmering tightly wound ‘round itself like a heart bump, the walls closing in and we all remark what a lovely day it is. what a lovely lovely day it really is
Done Wrong Blues
i want to cry in your armsi want to feel your simple charmsi don’t care what you dojust want to be with youi need to feel some warmth at nightcuz babe i get such fright you hear the daily newscan only send you into bluesi feel the way i always didlet my loneliness cocoon meandContinue reading “Done Wrong Blues”
ends versus means
every body is an end in itself meaningwe are not hereto profit we are not hereto exploitwe are not here to sufferwe are hereto walk this shining earth
howling out
come back to me?you sound just like a dog who buried her bone and don’t know where she putit only to seea tree blooming aboneshard blossomonly then will you know your mistake
An Interview with Audre Lorde
“And working with Black students, working with students who really questioned and caused, forced me to question what we were doing, how did we move, and what was the place, for instance, of our writing, of our poetry? And I came to see, first to feel, then to see, and then to share the factContinue reading “An Interview with Audre Lorde”
Fran Lebowitz Collection on Letterman, 1980-2010
a queen, methinks
Quote of the Day – March 18
“Panic. Pan. Pan-Africanism. All of us. Every. God. Pan. All nature. Pan. Everywhere. She was grinning, as she always grinned when she was able to dig below the barriers organized religion erected in its push toward a bogus civilization. I’d welcome panic, she said aloud, certain of it.” from The Salt Eaters by Toni CadeContinue reading “Quote of the Day – March 18”
i am waiting to confront it
direct and to the pointyou. are. very sexy to me. your truth was pointedat my chestit pierced meand i was happy.
Discourse on the Logic of Language
English is a foreign anguish.
Aida Rends 