Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDECaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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 are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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When 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.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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