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.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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