Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDESome women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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