What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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