Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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