Sensuous Sapphires: A Study of the Social Construction of Black Female Sexuality

How do we create an oppositional worldview, a consciousness, an identity, a standpoint that exists not only as that struggle which also opposes dehumanization but as that movement which enables creative, expansive self-actualization? Opposition is not enough. In that vacant space after one has resisted there is still the necessity to become — to make oneself anew. ¹