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.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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