We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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