It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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