I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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 wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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