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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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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