Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against 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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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 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 more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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