Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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 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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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