Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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 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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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