We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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