Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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 need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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