Lucía’s Reviews > Four Ways to Forgiveness > Status Update

“What is one man’s and one woman’s love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery.”

“Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.”

“Knowledge is a good in itself.”

“the owners were going to make the change. We were to be changed, we were to be freed, just as we had been owned. In history I saw that any freedom has been made, not given.”

“The first thing I did freely, as a free woman, was to shut my door.”

“ it may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.”

“What the rules are. Ways of needing one another. Human ecology.”

“To keep an acceptant spirit. That’s what I learned growing up. To accept. Not to change the world. Only to change the soul. So that it can be in the world. Be rightly in the world.”

“No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is a part of the whole knowledge. A true line, a true color. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.”

“We teach what we know, he thought, and all our knowledge is local.”