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.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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