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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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