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 LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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