I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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