I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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