Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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 over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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