It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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