Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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