A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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