Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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