We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with 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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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