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
AUDRE LORDESometimes 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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