Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEI want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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