It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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