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.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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