We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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 learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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