Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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