"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction."
-Audre Lorde
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"Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.“
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"When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture."
-Audre Lorde
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"In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men."
-Audre Lorde
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"Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men."
-Audre Lorde
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"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women."
-Audre Lorde
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"We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other."
-Audre Lorde
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"We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible."
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"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
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"For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language."
-Fabrice Luchini
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"For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play."
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"Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter."
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"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
-Lloyd Bentsen
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