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.
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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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