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Being given a lover's key is an intimate gesture: without it one can figure what course the relationship will take; with it trust is a temptation.

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For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.

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Cheryl Clarke

Cheryl Clarke

Born: May 16, 1947 (age 77)
Bio: Cheryl L. Clarke is a lesbian poet, essayist, educator and a Black feminist community activist: she lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Hobart, New York. With her life partner, Barbara Balliet, she is co-owner of Bleinheim Hill Books, a used and rare bookstore in Hobart.
Known for:
  1. Living as a lesbian (1986)
  2. Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry (1989)
  3. Experimental Love: Poetry (1993)
  4. After Mecca (2005)

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