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"I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insults and trivializes all our efforts. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action."
Audre Lorde | The Uses of Anger
the above comes just after the below, which I also find very powerful, enabling and enriching:
… for Black women and white women to face each other’s angers without denial and immobility or silence or guilt is in itself a heretical and generative idea. It implies peers meeting upon a common basis to examine difference, and to alter those distortions which history has created around our difference. For it is those distortions which separate us. And we must ask ourselves: Who profits from all this?
(first quote via vagina-pagina which is an amazing resource I’ve been consulting since my 14yr old livejournal days, bigup my streatham massive)
(via derica)
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