If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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We 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.
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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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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 are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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