It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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