Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
AUDRE LORDEWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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