We are jointly responsible for the care and raising of the young, since that they be raised is a function, ultimately, of the species. - Audre Lorde

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you.

Narcissism comes not out of self-love but out of .

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.