We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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