Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDEI learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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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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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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