Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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