When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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