When we admit and deal with difference; when we deal with the deep bitterness; when we deal with the horror of even our different nightmares; when we turn them and look at them, it’s like looking at death: hard but possible. If you look at it directly without embracing it, then there is much less that you can ever be made to fear. Audre Lorde
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To know that we are different is to know that we can be equal. To know that our differences separate us, makes it easier for us to come together. To face the horror of our differences and deal with them is to stop hiding from them. We all have our own nightmares, but if we look at them directly, they become easier to get through. When we face the deep bitterness of our differences, they get easier to deal with.

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