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 LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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