drwex | Something worth remembering

Pygment recently found this and I wanted to put it out here because maybe someone else would find it meaningful as I do:

"As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, ellipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and frightening way to live. My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly." - Audre Lorde, 2004