Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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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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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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