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Alexis De Veaux (born September 24, 1948) is a black, lesbian American writer and illustrator. She chaired the Department of Women's Studies, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her surname also appears as DeVeaux.

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Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.

Construct, Differently, Responsibility, Sight, Thinking, Vehicles

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Outsiders, Pages, Spy, Turning, Writers

babies ain't cute
hungry.

Babies, Baby, Cute, Hunger, Hungry

Survival is a four letter word.

Four, Letter, Letters, Survival, Word

I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.

Dream, Speak, Taken, Ten, Writers, Writing

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Hate, Hating, People, See, Special

Music stays in the air.
It travels at the speed of breath
at the sound of light.
It is never not heard.
It can wait centuries if it has to.

Air, Breath, Heard, Light, Music, Speed

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Alive, Change, Vulnerable

Pain can be washed out with a song.
Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

Become, Jazz, Pain, Song, Transformed, Washed

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Politics, Spelled, Word

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

High, Poverty, Problem, School, Want, Work

The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I can't distinguish which is which, and that really drives me crazy.

Crazy, House, Mental, Order, Rooms, Wall

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

Girl, Soul, Sunrise

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