We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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