Status Updates From Irmã Marginal

“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle, we do not live single issue lives; Malcolm knew this, Martin Luther King Jr. knew this. Our struggles are particular, but we are not alone.”

“It is not anger of other women that will destroy us but our refusal to stand still to listen, to his rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment.”

“Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical; it is the one which is most secret, requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper.”

the “what the world needs now is love” bit took the breath from my lungs and held it so intensely