Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I 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.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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