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"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"
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"I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism."

"When I date women now, I have learned to simply not care what they think about it. I'm the same person I always have been. Faithful. Dependable. Kind. Sweet. Funny. Awesome. And if they want to discount me because of something as insignificant and irrelevant as me experiencing attraction to men as well, then they don't get me in their lives. They don't deserve me."

"In a world where you can get a spare kidney, a black-market Picasso or a ticket to ride into space, why can't I see some actual sex? Some actual fucking from people who want to fuck each other? Some chick in an outfit I halfway respect, having the time of her life? I have MONEY. I'm willing to PAY for this. I AM NOW A 35-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, AND I JUST WANT A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR INTERNATIONAL PORN INDUSTRY WHERE I CAN SEE A WOMAN COME. I just want to see a good time."

"There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another."

"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."

"Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns."

"Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life."

"Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating."
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"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society."

"In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men."

"When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak."

"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."

"Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism."

"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't."

"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."

"Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men."

"When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid."
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