Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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 oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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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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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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