Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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