We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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 learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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