I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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