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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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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