"We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present. We do not have to suffer the waste of an amnesia that robs us of the lessons of the past rather than permit us to read them with pride as well as deep understanding. We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not to lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about — survival and growth."
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Audre Lorde, Learning from the 60s, : Essays and Speeches |date=1984 |publisher=Crossing Press |isbn=978-0-89594-142-8}}
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