“When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.”

—  Audre Lorde

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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writer and activist 1934–1992

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