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
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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