Divinity

“Muriel and I talked about love as a voluntary commitment, while we each struggled through the steps of an old dance, not consciously learned, but desperately followed. We had learned well in the kitchens of our mothers, both powerful women who did not let go easily. In those warm places of survival, love was another name for control, however openly given”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Self-preservation warned some of us that we could not afford to settle for one easy definition, one nearrow individuation of self. At the Bag, at Hunter College, uptown in Harlem, at the library, there was a piece of the real me bound in each place, and growing”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name