I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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