Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEWhen we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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