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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.

Audre Lorde

If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDE

Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect

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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDE

Flesh Hunger Mouth Reason Seek Shape
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Afraid Hear Silence Speak Welcome Women Empowerment
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDE

Deal Evade Important Inspirational Pain Transcend
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDE

Absolute Difference Economics Institution Necessary Outside People Profit Rejection
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDE

Warrior Women Empowerment
Revolution is not a one time event.
AUDRE LORDE

Event One Liner Revolution Time
We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life One Liner Positive Process
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDE

Act Action Language Silence Transformation
Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDE

Problem Share Women
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Action Attempt Constant Dreams Encouragement Ideas Ourselves
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Black Lives Matter Consicious Each Other Habit Tender Women
You are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDE

Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDE

Afraid Regret Silence Women
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDE

Creation Need Start Writing
In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDE

Despair Love Lying Recognize
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDE

Incite Learning Process Riot
Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDE

Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDE

Beginning Choas Erotic Feeling Measure Sense Strong
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Believe Fire Motivational Willing Women Empowerment
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
AUDRE LORDE

Face Oppression Woman
I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDE

Beware Magic Old Smile Woman
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDE

Angry Energy Information
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Decent Life Live Love Management People Sweet Want Work
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDE

Feminism Issue Live Single Struggle Women Empowerment