I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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