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.
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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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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