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# Cheryl Clarke

(1947)   Poet

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Cheryl Clarke is a poet.

## Quick Facts About Cheryl Clarke

Born May 16, 1947

Profession Poet

## About Cheryl Clarke

American writer (born 1947)... \| Cheryl Lynn Clarke is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and Black feminist community activist. Her scholarship focuses on African-American women's literature, black lesbian feminism, and the Black Arts Movement in the United States.

##  Quotes by Cheryl Clarke

> [The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-clarke/the-woman-who-takes-a-woman-lover-lives-dangerously-in-patriarchy/)

Cheryl Clarke

[Feminism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feminism/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee1/cheryl-clarke-66010_feminism_the-woman-who-takes-a-woman-lover-lives_51430.png)

> [Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-clarke/heterosexuality-is-a-die-hard-custom-through-which-male-supremacist/)

Cheryl Clarke

[Customs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/customs/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71d/cheryl-clarke-66010_customs_heterosexuality-is-a-die-hard-custom-thr_1105346.jpg)

> [So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-clarke/so-all-of-us-would-do-well-to-stop-fighting-each-other-for-our-space/)

Cheryl Clarke

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/cheryl-clarke-66010_bottom_so-all-of-us-would-do-well-to-stop-fight_1723776.png)

> [For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-clarke/for-a-woman-to-be-a-lesbian-in-a-male-supremacist-capitalist/)

Cheryl Clarke

[America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/459/cheryl-clarke-66010_america_for-a-woman-to-be-a-lesbian-in-a-male-su_2857331.png)

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