I will strive to be unafraid in that I will enter every room knowing that I do belong there.
Ashley M. Jones
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- “Hello, Poetry,” January 27, 2021; Complete sentence from Jones’s own introduction as guest editor of Poetry. These are her words, distinct from the Audre Lorde quotation opening her essay.
- “Hello, Poetry,” January 27, 2021
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