One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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