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“Am I to be cursed forever with becoming somebody else on the way to myself?”
― Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“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.”
― Fatima Mernissi

“What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.”
― Audre Lorde, 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.”
― June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays