"Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic."

-- Audre Lorde

#Creativity Quotes #Differences Quotes #Sparks Quotes

“A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.”
“The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.”
“If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.”

Source : "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.
“One of my missions was to teach.”
“I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.”
“Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.”
“If you are allergic to alcohol... can you take shots for that?”
“Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.”

Source : Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.26, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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