You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEHopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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