Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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