Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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