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.
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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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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