And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, …

Audre Lorde
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And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe. ✨ Audre Lorde (1978). Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power, Crossing Press
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