Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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