Revolution is not a one time event.
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 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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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