Revolution is not a one time event.
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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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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 erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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