My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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