Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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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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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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 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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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