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lonely, isolated world if you're black. Some of us still choose to move through that world, giving to it what it chooses to accept, taking from it what we can use. But we all know that when it comes down to it, it's only with each other that the exchange becomes an equal one.

Our lives, as black women, as black lesbians, are particularly and uniquely our own. We must speak out loudly and proudly about them. Theatre is one ve- hicle for doing that. For not only can WE not live without our lives, but the black community, of which we are a part, cannot survive without us either.

*"We cannot live without our lives" from a poem by Barbara Deming; also, the fi- nal refrain of Audre Lorde's poem "Need: A CHORAL of BLACK WOMEN'S VOIC- ES:

1982 Paula Ross

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Brochures • Books

Observation

Self doubt has come again

The world is sneaking in

And southern is the only comfort.

The dragon's in its flight As stars begin to cry

Reality's lost when the cork pops.

Your beautiful woman

if you'd only see

Your beautiful woman

just let yourself be

Shattered glass in tiny peices Tired arm from never reaching That golden dawn of you.

Painted walls, cracked and peeling With weather beaten feelings Restoration starts from within.

Your beautiful woman

if you'd believe it Your beautiful woman

some day you'll see it, too.

1982 Ka'ni

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