Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation. Audre Lorde
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  2. It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias. - Criss Jami
  3. There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Unknown
  4. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Unknown
  5. You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done. - Wendelin Van Draanen
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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