We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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