We are, each one of us, intricately woven into the other’s existence. —AUDRE LORDE
SMALL KINDNESSES by Danusha Laméris
Danusha Laméris SMALL KINDNESSES I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”when someone sneezes, a leftoverfrom the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.And sometimes, when you spill lemonsfrom your grocery bag, someone else will help youpick them up. Mostly, we …
It is happening to all of us. – Alice Walker
“Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.” -Alice Walker
Liberation – Lilla Watson
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” – Lilla Watson/ Aboriginal activists group in Queensland in the 1970s