It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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