Cheryl Clarke Quotes

Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.

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.

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.

The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.