Ann Allen Shockley
“There is no doubt that a well-organized Negro collection with selectively appointed books and related materials on the importance of the rich Black heritage can provide a nucleu
Cheryl Lynn Clarke
“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.” &#
Anita Cornwell
“We of the fifties (and the forties and on back to when) not only had to operate from the closet but, worse yet, most of us seemed to exist in a vacuum.” –Black Lesbian i
Jewelle Gomez
“For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for “just girls” when they see our make
Sheila Alexander-Reid
“My life’s work has brought me face to face with the next generation of very diverse LGBTQ+ leaders who are deeply committed to advancing the cause of social justice and fighti
Rayceen Pendarvis
“You have to go through something to have a legacy. And it lets me know that those who of those who stood so I may twirl, and that I stood so others may twirl,”-Rayceen
Linda Villarosa
“There is so much that has to change from that baked in discrimination to changing the thinking that the reason that people think that people aren’t healthy is because they are
Barbara Smith
“Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn’t afford to be.”- Barbara Smith. Barbara Smith is a respected lesbian feminist, teacher, lecturer, author, schola
Andrea Jenkins
(b. 1961) “…Victory does come out of struggle, but it’s a continuous struggle. We are still fighting for LGBT rights. We are still fighting for women’s rights. We are s