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My future, she felt, should be spent not researching disability but overcoming it.
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“There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle.”
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“I made myself listen to the birds singing squabbles and love songs. Occasionally I heard a war. Sharp mechanical sounds clashed with the nature music. Bells and whistles mashed together in nagging bursts. My new life was calling. I had to get on with it. Body historians, griots of the galaxy, we didn’t diddle ourselves in jungle paradises, we inhabited flesh to gather a genealogy of life. We sought the story behind all the stories.”
― So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
― So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
“Am I to be cursed forever with becoming somebody else on the way to myself?”
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
“What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The whole world will become a home to all of us, or none of us can hope to live on it, peacefully. But much of the American dream mistakenly supposes that, like a tree, we will grow and flourish, standing in one place where we murmur doomed declarations about our roots, about finding our roots, or putting down roots. In fact, of course, if we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
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