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.
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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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