I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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 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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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 erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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