Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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.
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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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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