We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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 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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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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 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 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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