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“Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”
― Maya Angelou, Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou

“It was said, in an earlier age, that the mind of man is a far country which can be neither approached nor explored. But today, under present conditions of scientific achievement, it will be possible for a nation as rich in human and material resources as ours to make the most remote recesses of the mind accessible,” the president vowed. “The mentally ill and the mentally retarded need no longer be alien to our affections or beyond the help of our communities.”
― Eileen McNamara, Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves