It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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 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.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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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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