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.
AUDRE LORDEPoetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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