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.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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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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