If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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