It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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