Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.
Audre LordeAttend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
Audre LordeI can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
Audre LordeI find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
Audre Lorde