Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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