A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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