Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDE- 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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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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
AUDRE LORDEWe must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
AUDRE LORDEI remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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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.
AUDRE LORDEThe 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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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