Revolution is not a one time event.
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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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