I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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