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.
AUDRE LORDEWhen times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done 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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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