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
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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