If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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 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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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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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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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