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.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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 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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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