Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEWe must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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