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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.”
― bell hooks

“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde

“Much of the gay white movement seeks to be included in the american dream and is angered when they do not receive the standard white male privileges, misnamed as “american democracy”. Often, white gay men are working not to change the system. This is one the reasons why the gay male movement is as white as it is. Black gay men recognize, again by the facts of survival, that being Black, they are not going to be included in the same way.”
― Audre Lorde, I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

“Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches