There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself -…

Audre Lorde
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There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ✨ Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). Conversations with Audre Lorde, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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