I 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.
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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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