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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, on thinking difference:

… 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)

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