I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDEWe have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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