If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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