Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
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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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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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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