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.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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