If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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.
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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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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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