Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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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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