Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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