I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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