Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEWe have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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