What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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