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.
AUDRE LORDEWe are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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