Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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