Raising Black children โ female and male โ in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. And in order to survive they must let go. This is what mothers teach โ love, survival โ that is, self-definition and letting go.
Audre LordeIf you donโt define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive
Audre LordeWhen I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
Audre Lorde