Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEYou cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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