Audre Lorde on experience

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

There are no new ideas, just new ways of giving those ideas we cherish breath and power in our own living.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain1835–1910

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain1835–1910

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5