When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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