• I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. remember
2. feeling
3. purely
4. black
5. truth
6. light

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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. by : Audre Lorde

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