A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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