Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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