2026-02-08.3_A Lorde - struggles, errors, survival, growth

“Our struggles are particular, but we are not alone. We are not perfect, but we are stronger and wiser than the sum of our errors.”

“Black people have been here before us and survived. We can read their lives like signposts on the road and find, as Bernice Reagon says so poignantly, that each one of us is here because somebody before us dis something to make it possible. To learn from their mistakes is not to lessen our debt to them, nor to the hard work of becoming ourselves, and effective.”

“We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about – survival and growth”

• Audre Lorde, Learning from the 60s, emphasis m(ine)