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.
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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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You 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.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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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