If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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