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Cheryl Clarke
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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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“Historically, this culture has come to identify lesbians as women who over time, engage in a range and variety of sexual-emotional relationships with women. I, for one, identify a woman as a lesbian who says she is.”
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“So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.”
Cheryl Clarke, U.S. poet, writer
(1947)