It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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