Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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