To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDEUnless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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 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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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 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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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