A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDE
I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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 bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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