We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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