Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDETo that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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