Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

erotic-as-power

• My body took charge from her flesh… 'No,' I whispered against the hollow of her ear. 'In the light.'

  ZNSM-RC-155

• To go to bed and to wake up again day after day besides a woman — the fact of us was a most wonderful and novel idea.

  ZNSM-RC-193

self-and-identity

• I could not own my own triumphs… if Muriel was leaving me, obviously I couldn't be a person who did anything.

  ZNSM-RC-219

• When your Black sisters on the job think you're crazy and collect money to buy you a hot comb and straightening iron.

  ZNSM-RC-168

belonging

• Finding out another woman was gay was enough reason to attempt a relationship — such were the results of loneliness.

  ZNSM-RC-139

• The whole family took a Fourth of July trip to Washington, D.C., the fabled and famous capital of our country.

  ZNSM-RC-062