I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEHopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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