When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
AUDRE LORDELife is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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