Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

I don&#39;t want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can&#39;t, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

It&#39;s possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we&#39;ll make it.

Audre Lorde

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