How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEWhat woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Some 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
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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