Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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