A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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