4 Quotes by Jewelle Gomez

if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.

The simple fact that there's a title for him-husband-means he has a role in the family, whatever his ethnicity.

We worked to find not a middle-ground, but a new ground that would support us both.

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 makeup and fashions, but we were/are actually guerrilla warriors, fighting undercover in the war to save women from the continuing campaign to make us irrelevant fluff.