I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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