Even back then I had changed things, and I didn’t even know it. When I should have reveled in this gift, instead, I’d seen myself as broken. But couldn’t you be broken and still bring change?
“One of my favorite stories I love to share is about a disabled Black Panther named Brad Lomax, who was instrumental in the 504 Sit-In that happened in California in the ’70s, and how he got the Black Panther Party to assist in the protest. The Black Panther Party fed the protestors, and without their involvement, many consider that the protest may not have been sustainable.”
― Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too
― Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too
“Who ever thinks, recalling the face of the one they loved who is gone: yes, I looked at you enough, I loved you enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?”
― Our Missing Hearts
― Our Missing Hearts
“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
“they will use my legends to shape their own language and make it ruler measuring the distance between my hungers and their own purpose.”
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
― The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
“when I look at the hermit crab, all I see is how it’s able to leave its hard shell when it wants. But I can never leave my body, my shell. And I never thought I’d be jealous of something as simple as a hermit crab.”
― Aniana del Mar Jumps In
― Aniana del Mar Jumps In
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