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.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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