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.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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 in the process of becoming.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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