Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

Audre Lorde
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  2. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. - Dorothy Day

  3. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl

  4. The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers..of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few,... - Allan Bloom

  5. A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind. - Anthony T. Hincks

More Quotes By Audre Lorde
  1. I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am...

  2. There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

  3. I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by...

  4. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined...

  5. I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and...

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