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Vreden i kroppen, som du er vokset op med skabt af smerte, og aggressionen over for uretfærdighed i den ydre verden, er den samme

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  “And true, sometimes it seems that anger alone keeps me alive; it burns with a bright and undiminished fl ame. Yet anger, like guilt, is an incomplete form of human knowledge. More useful than hatred, but still limited. Anger is useful to help clarify our differences, but in the long run, strength that is bred by anger alone is a blind force which cannot create the future. It can only demolish the past. Such strength does not focus upon what lies ahead, but upon what lies behind, upon what created it — hatred. And hatred is a deathwish for the hated, not a lifewish for anything else.” Audre Lorde: “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger” dette essay om vrede findes også som podcast Jeg er opvokset i en dansk middelklassefamilie, og jeg har altid været vred på alt og alle. Ofte har jeg citeret mig selv for at sige: ”Det er alle de andre, der er nogle idioter”. Jeg vil ikke sige, at jeg har haft det godt – eller været lykkelig, om du vi, men lykke har heller aldrig r...