We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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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 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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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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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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