Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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