Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEYou cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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