You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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