Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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