What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDESome women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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