In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
AUDRE LORDEIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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