It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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