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.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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