A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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