Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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