In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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.
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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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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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 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.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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