We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of B… - Audre Lorde

Homophobia: The fear of feelings of love for members of one’s own sex and therefore the hatred of those feelings in others.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt. That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.