To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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