Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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