Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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