Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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