Revolution is not a one time event.
AUDRE LORDEFor 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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