When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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 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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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