We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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 am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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