I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
Audre Lordestoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
Audre LordeHow a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some words are open. Love is a word another kind of open — As a diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside. Take my word for jewel in your open light.
Audre LordeI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde