Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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