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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Audre Lorde

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDE

Against Erotic Men Women
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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Believe Conquer Fear Goals Inspirational Job Matter Scare
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDE

Conscious Deal Feminism Lesbian Sleep Women
Revolution is not a one time event.
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Event One Liner Revolution Time
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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Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDE

Arena Change Choose Immediate Responsiblity Stand
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDE

Beware Magic Old Smile Woman
I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Bury Heroism Liar Refuse
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDE

Deal Evade Important Inspirational Pain Transcend
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDE

Blind Deep Gratitude
Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDE

Community Liberty One Liner
What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDE

Authority Fury Hear Moral Suffering Voice

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