“As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny, and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fear which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us.”
(Audre Lorde, Poetry is Not a Luxury 1985)
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