If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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 that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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