Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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