Ren D'Auria

“The tensions created inside me by the contradictions is another source of energy and learning. I have always known I learn my most lasting lessons about difference by closely attending the ways in which the differences inside me lie down together.”
― Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

“I am listening to what fear teaches. I will never be gone. I am a scar, a report from the frontlines, a talisman, a resurrection, a rough place on the chin of complacency.”
― Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

“But it is also true that sometimes we cannot heal ourselves close to the very people from whom we draw strength and light, because they are also closest to the places and tastes and smells that go along with a pattern of living we are trying to rearrange.”
― Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

“Feelings are not wrong, but you are accountable for the behavior you use to satisfy those feelings.”
― Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light