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.
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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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