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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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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