holding steady.™

thinking about my love for audre lorde helps me to forget my problems.

(emphasis mine)

“when we define ourselves, when i define myself, the place in which i am like you and the place in which i am not like you, i’m not excluding you from the joining–I’m broadening the joining.“

“we are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.”

“possibility is neither forever nor instant. it is not easy to sustain belief in its efficacy. we can sometimes work long and hard to establish [a] beachhead of real resistance to the deaths we are expected to live…“

“for there are no new ideas. there are only new ways of making them felt…”

(that last one evokes some of the sentiments present in a short monologue i’m slightly obsessed with, c/o Harper in “Angels in America”.)

truisms from house md

(which i’ve been running for the past week or so, through my continued efforts to procrastinate.)

“dying is easy. living is hard.”

“words are permanent.”

i’ll add more as they come to me. but these, i like in particular.

UPDATE: “you don’t get to choose your friends.”