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Beth Brant Quotes

1941–2015 United States

Beth E. Brant, Degonwadonti, or Kaieneke'hak (1941–2015) was a writer, essayist, and poet of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nation from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario, Canada.

United States
20th-century poets
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Two-Spirit writers are merging the selves that colonialism splits apart.

"Mother, I am gay. I have AIDS." The telephone call that it almost killed him to make.
The silence. Then, "Come home to us."

Homophobia is the eldest son of racism; they work in concert with each other, whether externally or internally. Native lesbian writing names those twin evils that would cause destruction to us.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Beth Brant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.