"Difference is that raw and powerful connection from……" — Audre Lorde
"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."
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Audre Lorde
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186 Quotes by Audre Lorde
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