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.
AUDRE LORDEI want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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