I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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 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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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 are all in the process of becoming.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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