“If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.”
“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”
“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.”
“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ”
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
“We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. ”