It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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 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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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