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.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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