We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I 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.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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