When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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