I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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