A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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 oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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