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Audre Lorde defines the erotic as "a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane," as "an assertion of the life-force of women; of that creative energy empowered." Her "Love Poem," for example, suggests that the erotic should no longer be hidden or oppressed because the creative force of women mostly is empowered by it. Another poem "Coal" implies that dark places in black women may hold "an incredible reserve of creativity and power." She finds that the African gods in whom, she feels, the erotic is reflected are different from the western gods in that the former were not influenced by the Judea-Christian thought. Deleuzean ideas of 'becoming woman,' 'immanence,' and 'desire' are comparable to some of Lorde's ideas on the erotic since they are based on process and individuality rather than result and generality.