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.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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