Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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