Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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.
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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 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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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