Not one of us is out here by ourselves - Jewelle Gomez

when we forget that the media lies, we forget ourselves, we forget the realities that we know. Our presses, the feminist presses, the small presses, taught us: they will lie to us. They lied to us in every book that they published that didn't bother to mention the gay character who we knew was embedded in the text-or created a Black character who sounded exactly like the white characters in the interest of cosmopolitanism, as if the thoughts in their heads were exactly the same as the white characters.

our society is not monochromatic. There is nothing in this society, there is no book on any bestseller list, there is no painting in the museum of modern art, there is no statuary in any museum in this country created by a U.S. citizen that was not informed by the multicultural nature of this society.

anger is constantly the fuel that feeds the work that I do, keeps me thinking of myself as an activist, and keeps me writing.