The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza, or wandered about the garden in the starlight.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

It&#39;s possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we&#39;ll make it.

Audre Lorde

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