Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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