Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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I 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.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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