A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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