My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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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 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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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