I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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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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