When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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 all in the process of becoming.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Some 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
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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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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