We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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