The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellect…

Audre Lorde
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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ✨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.56, Crossing Press
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth. ✨ Audre Lorde (1997). The Cancer Journals
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge … ▶
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence. ✨ … ▶
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

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