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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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