A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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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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