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.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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