Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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