Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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