Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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