There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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 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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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