We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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 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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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