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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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 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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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