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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.
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I do not believe that we can restore and expand the freedoms that our lives require unless and until we embrace the justice of our rage. And, if we do not change the language of current political discourse, if we do not reintroduce a Right and Wrong, a Good or Evil measurement of doers and deeds, then how shall we, finally, argue our cause?
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Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
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Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
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Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires...
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
July 9, 1936
Died:
June 14, 2002
(aged 65)
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