In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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