It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEWe are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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